Soldering-iron



(No Model.)

D. H. Y ALLEN.

SOLDERING IRON.

N0. 598,796. 4 Patented Nov. 16,1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Trice.

DAVID I-I. ALLEN, OF MIAMISBURG, OHIO.

SOLDERING-IRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,796, dated November 16, 1897.

' Application filed April 12, 1897. Serial No. 631,718. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID H. ALLEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Miamisburg, county of Montgomery, and

State of Ohio, have invented a new and usedifficult or impossible of access with the rigid handle ordinarily employed.

It consists in a novel construction of the joint between the iron and the handle for facilitating their relative adjustment as described, in a novel construction of the handle and of the clamping rod or lever connected with said handle, and in certain details of construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved soldering iron or copper with the handle shown partly in section and partly broken away. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the enlarged end of the handle which engages the iron. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the forked end of the clamping rod or lever. Fig. 4 represents a transverse section through the handle, clampingrod, and its adjusting-nut; and Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing a modification in the clamping rod or lever.

1 indicates the copper or iron proper, which, except in particulars hereinafter noted, may be of any usual or preferred form or construction and of any usual or suitable material. The heel end of this iron, to which the handle 2 is to beconnected, is beveled, preferably at an angle of forty-five degrees, and centrally of said beveled end is provided with a stout headed pin 3, arranged substantially perpendicularly to the beveled face of said end for engaging the slotted and correspondingly-beveled end or web 4 on the adjacent end of the handle.

The handle 2 is made of metal, concavoconvex or semicylindrical in form, except at its extreme outer end, to which the wooden holder or handpiece 5 is applied, which end may be made solid and tapering, in the usual manner, to facilitate the attachment of said holder. The end of the handle connecting with the iron is expanded and enlarged, as shown at 2, Fig. 2, and the inclined web 4, at the extreme end thereof, is slotted at a to adapt it to engage the headed pin 3.

Within the concave handle is located a clamping rod or lever 6, enlarged at the end lying within the enlarged end of the handle and provided at said end with an inclined and slotted or forked end or web 7, conforming to the slotted end web 4 and also adapted to engage the headed pin 3. The opposite end of the rod, lying within the handle, is upturned or provided with an outwardly-projecting spur 8, and adjacent thereto, on the side toward the iron, the handle is provided with a screw-threaded collar or enlargement 9, on which is mounted a nut 10, having a polygonal peripheral face for facilitating its adjustment on the screw -threaded collar, either by hand or by the aid of a wrench, as required. This nut, when adjusted outwardly, acts on the spur 8 and draws the rod 6 outwardly, thereby forcing the web 4 into snug and rigid contact with the beveled end of the iron 1, in a manner that will bereadily understood. By loosening the nut the iron can be turned or swung around from a position axially in line with the handle to one substantially at a right angle thereto, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, or to any desired intermediate angle, as may be required for use.

In the modification shown in Fig 5 the clamping-rod is made in the form of an elbowlever, pivoted at its elbow 12 in the bottom of-the enlarged handle end 2 the short upright end or arm 18 of said lever being slotted or forked to engage the headed pin 3. By forcing the long arm 11 of the lever down into the concave handle the latter will be forced into snug contact with theiron under any adj ustment of the latter relative to the handle. The lever can be held in the position last above described by means of a ring 14, sliding on the handle for engaging or releasing the lever.

By the arrangement of the headed pin and the parts connecting therewith, as described, said pin is made to serve as a pivot on which the iron and handle can be swung or adjusted to any desired angle, the one relative to the other, when the clamping rod or lever is loosened, and by further loosening the clampingrod to bring the slotted or forked ends of said rod and handle together the iron and handle can be readily separated, adapting them to be brought into compact shape for transportation.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and sought to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. In asoldering copper or iron, the copper or iron proper provided with a beveled end, in combination with a headed pin for coupling the handle thereto and permitting the relative adjustment of said iron and handle, substantially as described.

2. In a soldering-iron, the copper or iron proper having a beveled end and a headed pin thereon, in combination with a handle havinga slot-ted and correspondingly-beveled end for engaging said pin, substantially as described.

3. The combination in a soldering-iron of the iron proper having a beveled end and a headed pin thereon, a handle having a correspondingly-beveled end slotted to engage said pin, and a clamping rod or lever also engaging said pin for forcing the handle and iron into rigid engagement, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a soldering-iron having a beveled end and a headed pin thereon, of a hollow or concave-convex handle provided with a slotted, inclined web for engaging said pin, and an adjustable clamping rod or lever connected to said handle, substantially as described.

5. In a soldering-iron, the concave-convex handle, in combination with an adjustable clamping rod or lever working within said handle, and means for holding said rod or lever at the desired adjustment, substantially as described.

(3. In a soldering-iron, the coneavo-eonvex handle having an inclined, slotted end or web for engaging the iron, in combination with an adjusting rod or lever having a similarlyslotted end also engaging the iron, and means for holding said rod at the desired adjustment, substantially as described.

'7. In a soldering-iron, the iron proper having a beveled end and a headed pin thereon, in combination with the concave-convex handle having aslotted and correspondingly-beveled end for engaging said iron, a clampingrod adjustable within the handle, the latter being screw-threaded, and a nut adjustable on said handle for adjusting said clampingrod, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 7th day of April, A. D. 1897.

DAVID II. ALLEN.

\Vitnesses:

CHAS. E. KINDER, \V. A. REITER. 

